NOV 22ND - The poll is now closed! Congratulations to darthkindy for winning this assignment!

THE WINNER WILL BE ANNOUNCED AT MIDNIGHT GMT ON 21ST OCTOBER!

Hi everyone! Welcome to October's Assignment!

The theme for this month is "Equipment", as suggested by Jiko who won the August 2011 competition. Be sure to read the whole post for the rules.

In Jiko's own words:

"It's not limited to camera equipment (even if it's what we use most). It might be any tool - a guitar, a soldering iron, a camera, a screwdriver or whatever people use in order to do their job.

Minimal post processing please."

The rules!

1: You can only submit one image and it MUST be taken during October 2011. Photos taken earlier will be disqualified!

2: All images submitted must be no more than 1024 pixels on their longest side, although you can include a link to a full resolution version if you like. Flickr users must link back to the original version to comply with its latest rules.

As always, please exercise good judgement on what is suitable for the forum. Keep it clean and family-friendly or it'll be removed. See the Forum Rules for guides.

Please include a sentence or two with your photo describing what you were trying to achieve and if there were any particular challenges in doing so like, for example, any special exposure or lighting setup.

We're all enthusiasts here, so it's also great to see what equipment you used and the settings too. So please also include the following:

Only a lucky few get to use this as a tool of their actual day job. Most people have to settle for playing football/rugby as a hobby.

My first time taking sports photos this weekend. I think the players preferred the "before" image with the ball on the tee and the kickers foot just about to make contact. I prefer this "after" shot - makes me wonder if he made the shot or not. (I don't actually know as it was the first penalty kick and I was too busy looking to see if I got the shot to worry about his shot.)

Not many people rely on gear as much as climbers do. As Gordon is falling you can see he's looking at his gear, that 10mm thick rope and a carabiner weighing well under 50g is all that's going to stop him decking from over 50ft

I think I have finally got this to work.
These spanners were found hanging in a locomotive shed amongst a myriad of other equipment necessary for the running of locomotives.
I used a flash with a Canon EOS 7D, lens EF24-70f/2.8, ISO640, exp.1/250sec at f/2.8. I cropped and made a small adjustment with the contrast.

EDIT - I fixed your code, please have a look at how I did it, it's very simple. - Bjorn -

I had the opportunity to visit my relatives in Japan from Oct6-26. I have been may times in the past however this is the first time I had a high-end dSLR to enjoy the scenery with. My grandparents have been farming in a small village in Shimane-ken province almost all of their lives. My grand father is currently 88 and still farming. His favorite tool? These fujitsu flash-lights have been going strong for almost 50 years. He has one in every room of the house, the glove-box of his truck, as well as his daughter's van which he borrows every once in a while. I thought it would make a suitable subject (and I hadn't ever seen a fujitsu flash light anyways).

For some reason the b/w portion around the flashlight has a really ugly banding look to it on my browser. I tried uploading at diff. sizes and resolutions but it didn't make any difference, I'm a bit peeved how much it ruins the image! Hope you enjoy anyways:

my submission this guy was at a local craft show selling his CD and he was drumming up some business (so to speak)
very simple
a crop and black and white conversion
sorry about the banding it looks better it is an artifact of the compression
for the web
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